Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Mercy
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Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence... also the damnest fool.
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The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.
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Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
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Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?"
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Abraham Lincoln
- Born: February 12, 1809
- Died: April 15, 1865
- Occupation: 16th U.S. President